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Landis + Gyr Agrees to Leave Smart Meter Documents Up, Then Sends Notice to Take Them Down

Landis + Gyr Agrees to Leave Smart Meter Documents Up, Then Sends Notice to Take Them Down

A Georgia energy company has made two separate attempts to take down public documents that let Seattle residents know how the “smart meters” on their homes work. Back in 2016, a local activist obtained two documents from the City of Seattle related to the smart meter technology. But some companies involved in making and maintaining that technology went to court and won a quick order that forcing the documents offline by arguing that information about the city’s meters constituted “trade secrets.”